Re: [Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-04-01 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Oliver- I was able to apt-get install ubuntu-netbook earlier today. It took a very, very long time (since I don't have a ports mirror, and since this is pure emulation), but it ran to completion. Several times during the dist-upgrade, though, the SDL window seemed to go unresponsive for a

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-04-01 Thread Oliver Grawert
just to answer the above question, 3G disk and 256M RAM should be enough for netbook -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-04-01 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Oliver- I was able to apt-get install ubuntu-netbook earlier today. It took a very, very long time (since I don't have a ports mirror, and since this is pure emulation), but it ran to completion. Several times during the dist-upgrade, though, the SDL window seemed to go unresponsive for a

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Oliver- Just to confirm Is 256M memory, and 3GB disk, and no swap, enough resources to actually do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-netbook ? I just want to make sure we're not hitting a memory/disk limit inside of the guest before I chase down the qemu IO emulation code path -- apt/dpkg

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
I think I've reproduced it here. Stuck unpacking firefox-gnome-support. Screenshot shows uptime of 46 minutes (how far into the install of ubuntu-netbook this occurs), load at 1.74 which is high but not crash- the-machine high, memory usage is at 72%, and disk is at 52%, so there's still free

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
That last run was executed with scsi emulated disk, like this: $ qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -cpu cortex-a8 -kernel ./vmlinuz -hda ubuntu-arm.img -m 256 -append root=/dev/sda mem=256M devtmpfs.mount=0 rw single -net nic -net user -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Hmm, well this screen shot is a little puzzling... From within the ARM VM, I was able to dd all of the 3GB /dev/sda to /dev/null in about 2.5 minutes (20.1MB/s). That's a lot of read I/O. I need to find some way of reproducing this problem outside of apt-get before sending it upstream... --

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
** Attachment added: qemu-dd.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42692704/qemu-dd.png -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
One more... this one used dd to read 1G of data from disk, and write that to file, successfully. Took 247s, at 4.3MB/s (doing both reads and writes). I'm having trouble finding a way to reproduce this outside of apt Ideas? ** Attachment added: qemu-dd-write.png

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
One more question, Oliver ... Would be it possible to enable the virtio networking and disk drivers in the Lucid arm kernel in the guest? I have a very strong feeling that upstream QEMU is going to first recommend that we test the virtio disk driver model (instead of the scsi emulation one). As

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Loïc Minier
Dustin: virtio isn't available on ARM. I researched virtio on ARM a couple of weeks ago, I did some Kconfig includes hackery and managed to build the modules, but I get an oops when the first virtio device is registered on the bus. Happy if you can help with getting this working, this would

Re: [Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Bummer, okay, thanks Loic. -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Loïc Minier
Dustin: virtio isn't available on ARM. I researched virtio on ARM a couple of weeks ago, I did some Kconfig includes hackery and managed to build the modules, but I get an oops when the first virtio device is registered on the bus. Happy if you can help with getting this working, this would

Re: [Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Bummer, okay, thanks Loic. -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Oliver- Just to confirm Is 256M memory, and 3GB disk, and no swap, enough resources to actually do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-netbook ? I just want to make sure we're not hitting a memory/disk limit inside of the guest before I chase down the qemu IO emulation code path -- apt/dpkg

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
I think I've reproduced it here. Stuck unpacking firefox-gnome-support. Screenshot shows uptime of 46 minutes (how far into the install of ubuntu-netbook this occurs), load at 1.74 which is high but not crash- the-machine high, memory usage is at 72%, and disk is at 52%, so there's still free

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
Hmm, well this screen shot is a little puzzling... From within the ARM VM, I was able to dd all of the 3GB /dev/sda to /dev/null in about 2.5 minutes (20.1MB/s). That's a lot of read I/O. I need to find some way of reproducing this problem outside of apt-get before sending it upstream... --

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
That last run was executed with scsi emulated disk, like this: $ qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -cpu cortex-a8 -kernel ./vmlinuz -hda ubuntu-arm.img -m 256 -append root=/dev/sda mem=256M devtmpfs.mount=0 rw single -net nic -net user -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
** Attachment added: qemu-dd.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/42692704/qemu-dd.png -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
One more... this one used dd to read 1G of data from disk, and write that to file, successfully. Took 247s, at 4.3MB/s (doing both reads and writes). I'm having trouble finding a way to reproduce this outside of apt Ideas? ** Attachment added: qemu-dd-write.png

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-31 Thread Dustin Kirkland
One more question, Oliver ... Would be it possible to enable the virtio networking and disk drivers in the Lucid arm kernel in the guest? I have a very strong feeling that upstream QEMU is going to first recommend that we test the virtio disk driver model (instead of the scsi emulation one). As

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Sack
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Medium = High -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to qemu-kvm in ubuntu.

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Sack
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Medium = High -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-19 Thread Alexander Sack
this needs to be RC ... it blocks rootstock spec. ** Also affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Medium Status: Incomplete ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Milestone: None = ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Incomplete =

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-19 Thread Alexander Sack
this needs to be RC ... it blocks rootstock spec. ** Also affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Medium Status: Incomplete ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Milestone: None = ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Incomplete =

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
** Attachment added: apt-strace.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40681851/apt-strace.log -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
running apt under strace shows it hangs silently in read() running top in a different console during teh hang first shows apt running moderately at 45% CPU usage, dpkg at about 10% ... i see some dpkg-deb processes with defunct tag pass by, then dpkg vanishes completely from top output (there

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
** Attachment added: apt-strace.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40681851/apt-strace.log -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-10 Thread Oliver Grawert
running apt under strace shows it hangs silently in read() running top in a different console during teh hang first shows apt running moderately at 45% CPU usage, dpkg at about 10% ... i see some dpkg-deb processes with defunct tag pass by, then dpkg vanishes completely from top output (there

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
seems i spoke to soon, even with qcow2 this hang occurs, i was also experimenting with different blocksizes on the filesystem and as well with different filesystems (ext2/3/4) none of it changed a thing in behavior, the hang also always occurs at the same place. -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
sadly all versions of qemu system-arm expose this in lucid ... over the weekend i tried all qemu.-system-arm binaries we have in the archive going backwards in history up to the first karmic version ... i also tried the versatile kernel we used to use in karmic (which worked fine during karmic

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
note also that the VM itself doesnt hang, its just the disk IO ... if i stop the hanging process teh VM is usable as before. if you want to reproduce install rootstock and run: sudo rootstock -f test -s ubuntu-netbook^ (note that wont give you any access to the VM, try the thing below for this)

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
i just finished a complete build of a karmic rootfs under lucid, that finished fine so it is definately a problem of interaction of the lucid userspace with the lucid VM or versatile kernel (the problem does not occur on real hardware) -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
seems i spoke to soon, even with qcow2 this hang occurs, i was also experimenting with different blocksizes on the filesystem and as well with different filesystems (ext2/3/4) none of it changed a thing in behavior, the hang also always occurs at the same place. -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Chuck Short
Oliver, Which version are we talking about here? chuck ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
sadly all versions of qemu system-arm expose this in lucid ... over the weekend i tried all qemu.-system-arm binaries we have in the archive going backwards in history up to the first karmic version ... i also tried the versatile kernel we used to use in karmic (which worked fine during karmic

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
note also that the VM itself doesnt hang, its just the disk IO ... if i stop the hanging process teh VM is usable as before. if you want to reproduce install rootstock and run: sudo rootstock -f test -s ubuntu-netbook^ (note that wont give you any access to the VM, try the thing below for this)

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-08 Thread Oliver Grawert
i just finished a complete build of a karmic rootfs under lucid, that finished fine so it is definately a problem of interaction of the lucid userspace with the lucid VM or versatile kernel (the problem does not occur on real hardware) -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
apparently this hang only occurs with raw qemu images, converting the disk image to qcow2 does not produce the hang. -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server

[Bug 532733] Re: apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed

2010-03-05 Thread Oliver Grawert
apparently this hang only occurs with raw qemu images, converting the disk image to qcow2 does not produce the hang. -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

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